I love making bread but I haven’t made any since new year because of the detox but I was reading a recipe last night for baba ganoush and it said to serve it with chickpea flat bread which is also in the book, so I’m going to be making both today. The flat bread is apparently an old Roman recipe and it makes a batter that you pour onto a baking tray and leave to cook in the oven. I’m intrigued to try making flat bread this way.
Here’s the chickpea flat bread that I made this afternoon
It’s weird looking stuff, and you probably can’t see well from these photos because the sun (what’s that) was shining right in the kitchen window and causing weird shadows, but the bread is very yellow because of the chickpeas. It is definitely a flat bread but not what I was expecting. I kept thinking it would be like pitta bread but then when it said it came out like a batter and you had to put it in the oven, then it was obviously not going to be anything like pita.
You bake it in a square tin, and then when it’s cool, you cut it into wedges…
Here it is with the baba ganoush I made to go with it, and some olives of course! And yes the bread is that colour, photo turned out better than I thought. Very yellow bread.
It doesn’t have any flour in it at all except the stuff made from chickpeas (gram flour) and it doesn’t “rise” as there are no raising agents in it at all ie no yeast, no baking powder etc. It’s kinda hard to explain what it’s like as it’s like a hard cooked paste? That doesn’t sound very appetising lol It’s probably about 1 cm thick and when you turn it out of the tray it’s solid, and you can cut it into wedges. It’s not really like my idea of what a flatbread is but that’s what the recipe calls it and I don’t have any other word for it, except weird paste you can cut with a knife. It does only take about 15-20 mins in the oven though so that was quite good.
